A curiously depressing and moribund piece of abstract noise from Jason Crumer. Let There Be Crumer (SECOND LAYER RECORDS SLR016)
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Making of Rainbows
Nine Inch Snails Slugfield may be a pretty repulsive name, and an album title like Slime Zone (PNL RECORDS PNL008)
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Not one but three bass clarinets can be heard on The Name By Which The World Knows Them (PEIRA 13),
Continue readingLigeti Morphed: a sometimes spellbinding performance of acoustic and electronic music combined
Ensemble Offspring with Oren Ambarchi and Martin Ng, Ligeti Morphed, Sydney Festival / About An Hour (CarriageWorks, Eveleigh, 13 January
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That path is for your steps alone The Italian percussionist Andrea Belfi has recorded Wege (RM446) for the Room 40
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Fiat Lux Very impressed with the beautiful melancholy of Leyfðu Ljósinu (TOUCH TO:90) from Hildur Guðnadóttir, a continuous 35-minute piece
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Got another couple of outlandish cassettes from Bryan Lewis Saunders which arrived 12 April 2012. I will declare an interest
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Heavy dark drone of the day comes from Ural Umbo, the fourth release from this very productive Swiss-American team who
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The partnering of Richard Pinhas with Merzbow continues to be fruitful and productive if the Rhizome (CUNEIFORM RECORDS RUNE 328)
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Sam Pettigrew is a pro-active musician, performer, organiser and instigator in Sydney. Earlier this month we noted an item on
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